No, sorry, no points if you said it was Quiz Day, even though you are right.

Twenty more challenging questions for you to ponder over.

So get a pot of coffee going and try you hand at these.

As usual, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!

Enjoy and good luck.

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Q. 1: You’ve heard of tasers, you’ve probably seen videos of them on TV or YouTube, but what do the letters ‘T-A-S-E-R’ stand for?

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Q. 2: Out of the 40,000 men who served on U-boats during World War II, approximately how many returned safely?

a) 100% b) 75% c) 50% d) 25% e) 15%

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Q. 3: When did the Cold War end?

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Q. 4: On which side of a venetian blind is the cord that adjusts the opening between the slats?

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Q. 5: To which country do the Galapagos Islands belong?

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Q. 6: What member of Britain’s Royal Family was assassinated whilst sailing from Mullaghmore in Ireland in 1979?

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Q. 7: Harry Potter is a very famous and successful series of seven fantasy novels, who wrote them?

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Q. 8: Does a merry-go-round turn clockwise or counter-clockwise?

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Q. 9: Which popular dried fruit is named after a port city in Greece?

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Q. 10: Currently the highest priced painting in the world with a sales price equivalent to something in the region of $300 million, ‘The Card Players’ was painted by whom?

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Q. 11: The old name for this island country stems from the Latin word for beautiful, what is it called today?

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Q. 12: Complete the title of each of the following Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. (And yes, you get a point for each correct answer.)

a) The Red ….. b) The Emperor’s … ……. C) The Steadfast … …….

d) The Princess And … … and, e) The Wild …..

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Q. 13: Some wills are strange, which very famous man left his wife his second best bed?

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Q. 14: It’s the name of a dessert, the largest city in North Carolina, USA, and the wife of King George III – what is it?

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Q. 15: Which of the following was NOT the name of a Chinese dynasty?

a) Qing b) Xin c) Ming d) Jin e) Ching or, e) Tang

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Q. 16: What huge sporting tournament begins June 14th this year?

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Q. 17: Who was the first US President to have electricity in the White House?

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Q. 18: What are very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds called?

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Q. 19: He was the mythical founder of the city of Rome and the slayer of his twin brother. His name was also used for a war-like race of aliens in the series Star Trek. What was his name? (And a bonus point on offer if you can also correctly name his twin brother.)

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Q. 20: It was the end of Napoleon’s career and the start of ABBA’s, what was it?

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ANSWERS

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Q. 1: You’ve heard of tasers, you’ve probably seen videos of them on TV or YouTube, but what do the letters ‘T-A-S-E-R’ stand for?

A. 1: ‘Taser’ – Stands for ‘Thomas A Swift Electric Rifle’.

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Q. 2: Out of the 40,000 men who served on U-boats during World War II, approximately how many returned safely?

a) 100% b) 75% c) 50% d) 25% e) 15%

A. 2: The correct answer is d) 25%. Out of the 40,000 men who served on U-boats during WWII, only approximately 10,000 returned safely.

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Q. 3: When did the Cold War end?

A. 3: This year (2014) is the 25th anniversary of the end of the Cold War, so take a point if you said ‘1989’.

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Q. 4: On which side of a venetian blind is the cord that adjusts the opening between the slats?

A. 4: It’s on the left.

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Q. 5: To which country do the Galapagos Islands belong?

A. 5: Ecuador.

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Q. 6: What member of Britain’s Royal Family was assassinated whilst sailing from Mullaghmore in Ireland in 1979?

A. 6: Earl Mountbatten.

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Q. 7: Harry Potter is a very famous and successful series of seven fantasy novels, who wrote them?

A. 7: The Harry Potter series was written by the British author J. K. Rowling.

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Q. 8: Does a merry-go-round turn clockwise or counter-clockwise?

A. 8: Counter-clockwise.

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Q. 9: Which popular dried fruit is named after a port city in Greece?

A. 9: Corinthians (after the port city Corinth).

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Q. 10: Currently the highest priced painting in the world with a sales price equivalent to something in the region of $300 million, ‘The Card Players’ was painted by whom?

A. 10: Paul Cézanne.

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Q. 11: The old name for this island country stems from the Latin word for beautiful, what is it called today?

A. 11: The old name was ‘Formosa’, but the island nation is now known as Taiwan or officially the Republic of China.

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Q. 12: Complete the title of each of the following Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. (And yes, you get a point for each correct answer.)

a) The Red ….. b) The Emperor’s … ……. C) The Steadfast … …….

d) The Princess And … … and, e) The Wild …..

A. 12: The five answers are a) The Red SHOES b) The Emperor’s NEW CLOTHES

c) The Steadfast TIN SOLDIER d) The Princess And THE PEA e) The Wild SWANS

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Q. 13: Some wills are strange, which very famous man left his wife his second best bed?

A. 13: There was a clue in the question, the answer is Will Shakespeare.

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Q. 14: It’s the name of a dessert, the largest city in North Carolina, USA, and the wife of King George III – what is it?

A. 14: Charlotte.

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Q. 15: Which of the following was NOT the name of a Chinese dynasty?

a) Qing b) Xin c) Ming d) Jin e) Ching or, e) Tang

A. 15: They are all the names of Chinese dynasties except for e) Ching which I just made up! Take a point if you answered e).

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Q. 16: What huge sporting tournament begins June 14th this year?

A. 16: The football (soccer) World Cup.

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Q. 17: Who was the first US President to have electricity in the White House?

A. 17: Benjamin Harrison was the first president to have electricity in the White House. However, he was so scared of getting electrocuted that he would never touch the light switches himself.

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Q. 18: What are very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds called?

A. 18: Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are called ‘scuds’.

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Q. 19: He was the mythical founder of the city of Rome and the slayer of his twin brother. His name was also used for a war-like race of aliens in the series Star Trek. What was his name? (And a bonus point on offer if you can also correctly name his twin brother.)

A. 19: His name was ‘Romulus’. His twin brother’s name was ‘Remus’.

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Q. 20: It was the end of Napoleon’s career and the start of ABBA’s, what was it?